Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 555 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #81 / 310
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33621 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #1514 / 7422
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18732 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #463 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 11
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2882 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #53 / 852
  • Number of attempts: 5
Com(m)a Trouble - 3829 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #208 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11458 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1159 / 4199
  • Number of attempts: 14
Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #8 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vice versa - 7910 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #412 / 2129
  • Number of attempts: 8
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